Examples of 'moor' in a sentence

Meaning of "moor"

A moor is a broad area of open land, often covered with heather, grass, and small shrubs, typically found in upland regions
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  • An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath
  • A game preserve consisting of moorland.
  • To cast anchor or become fastened.
  • To fix or secure (e.g. a vessel) in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with ropes, cables or chains or the like.

How to use "moor" in a sentence

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You would never moor a dinghy in a lagoon.
The tunnel leads under the moor.
The ship will moor right here.
The moor has often been affected by fires.
And over the moor and valley.
The moor is used here as a natural resource.
The ship should be prepared to moor if necessary.
I awoke on the moor wi his corpse on top of me.
A man needs a good stick on the moor.
Goes off on the moor by himself for hours.
We can walk back across the moor.
North moor has never had an accident.
How can the lost one moor.
That moor is a magnet for happy campers.
A group of surfers camped on the moor there.

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Possibility to moor your boat at the harbour.
Hopeless lovers wandering over a desolate moor.
Out on the moor we heard a terrible cry.
I did not have a fear of the moor then.
The moor was covered with blood.
I ran into him across the moor.
Field and fountain moor and mountain.
The early settlement was on the edge of a moor.
Let the ship not moor at a dream.
Not be found out there on the moor.
The peat can not moor properly.
It is the stoniest part of the whole moor.
The moor will be their grave.
Because they stuck it to me on the moor today.
There is a large moor by the foot of it.
Papa said there were quantities on the moor.
The moor is intersected with paths.
To the middle of bodmin moor and back.
But the moor was not quaggy.
I fould this great new place to moor.
Hiding on the moor ever since.
It is said to be heard at night upon the moor.
Moor the ship at the pier.
Look at the noises on the moor at night.
We will moor and pick you up.
Out on the wild and windy moor.
Take this moor for example.
From one of your pursuers on the moor.
And more on the moor where she died.
We found his body as we crossed the moor.
Part of this moor also belongs to the farm.
She sets up the camp in the moor.
Moor lists four kinds of robots in relation to ethics.
So you arranged to meet him up on the moor.
It is possible to moor punts in the grounds of the pub.

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